'2012 QS World University Rankings' - Only Korean university to be ranked 50th in the world in Mathematics
No. of citations of theses, 'world top class'
[June 29, 2012]

 YU (president Lee, Hyo-soo) was ranked 40th in the world in the math sector in the '2012 QS World University Rankings'. YU is the only Korean university that was ranked in the top 50 in math.

 QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) of England, a global university evaluation institute, announced its world university ranking results for individual academic fields on the 28th. YU is ranked 40th in the entire world in math. YU shocked the academic circles in last year's QS rankings by being ranked in the top 101-150 together with Seoul National University. This year, its ranking was boosted by over 50 and became the only Korean university to be in the world's top 50.

 Especially in the 'citation' evaluation in mathematics, YU received a near perfect score and is assessed to be at the world's top class.

 Such results can be attributed to a large part for the outstanding research of Professor Park, Ju-hyun (45, photo) of the Department of Electrical Engineering who wrote many papers that scholars around the world cited. Professor Park published 37 SCI-level theses last year alone. While it is difficult for most people to write one paper in a year, he wrote over three every month.

 In the Scopus DB registered academic journals, which acts as a standard for the research evaluations of QS, Professor Park published 99 papers from 2007 to 2011, and his theses were cited a total of 1,448 times. In addition, since working as a professor at YU at the age of 34 in 2000, he published over 200 SCI-class papers, and when including his papers that were published in other academic journals and academic conferences, the number of papers exceeds 300.

 His main field of research is in control engineering, and especially on the Nonlinear Dynamics, which is a field of basic theories, rather than applied sectors such as for robots. It is a 'basic academic field' that finds rules in the complexities of nature.

 He is also very active in scholastic and outside activities. Last year, he actively worked as a committee member for 4 international academic conferences including the IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) MMM 2012, and worked as an editing committee member for a total of 4 academic journals such as SCI-level international academic journals overseen by Elsevier of the US and Springer of Germany. In 2008, he became the first Korean to be appointed as the tenured deputy-chief editor for 'Applied Mathematics and Computation', which is an international journal of Elsevier. Being the chief editor for determining whether or not to publish theses is the greatest honor for scholars. 'Applied Mathematics and Computation' is based on applied mathematics and is an SCI-class journal that includes all applied sciences (math, engineering, physics, bio-chemistry, etc), and since its founding in 1975, its editing team changed very little and is famous for its strict quality management.

 On this, Professor Park, Ju-hyun said, "I will work hard to stay on my original track and will continue to write papers as a scholar."